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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Thurrock Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,470 approved · 630 refused · 112 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Nov 2016 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Eastdene South Hill Langdon Hills Essex SS16 6JD
Received 24 Feb 202527 Crouch Road Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4BX
Received 24 Feb 202531 St Michaels Close Aveley Essex RM15 4SY
Received 24 Feb 20252 Hall Crescent Aveley Essex RM15 4JS
Received 24 Feb 2025R G Cole Ltd 1 - 3 Broadway Grays Essex RM17 6EW
Received 24 Feb 202520 Stour Road Chadwell St Mary Essex RM16 4BS
Received 24 Feb 2025St John The Baptist Church Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 25 Feb 2025Land Adjacent Electricity Distribution Site The Manorway Coryton Essex
Received 25 Feb 2025St John The Baptist Church Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 25 Feb 202536 Weymouth Drive Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6BX
Received 25 Feb 2025The Eves Malvina Close Horndon On The Hill Essex SS17 8QG
Received 25 Feb 2025Harris Academy Riverside London Road Purfleet-on-thames Essex RM19 1QY
Received 25 Feb 202525 Coleridge Road Tilbury Essex RM18 8EE
Received 25 Feb 2025St John The Baptist Church Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 25 Feb 2025St John The Baptist Church Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 25 Feb 2025St John The Baptist Church Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 26 Feb 2025Land Adjacent Chapel Farm And To Rear Of High Road And Baker Street Orsett Essex
Received 26 Feb 202544 Lowlands Road Aveley Essex RM15 4ED
Received 26 Feb 2025Treetops School Buxton Road Grays Essex RM16 2WU
Received 26 Feb 2025The Yews High Road Horndon On The Hill Essex SS17 8LB
Received 27 Feb 2025St John The Baptist Church Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 27 Feb 202535 Orchis Grove Grays Essex RM17 5JG
Received 27 Feb 2025St John The Baptist Church Mucking Wharf Road Stanford Le Hope Essex
Received 27 Feb 202518 Kershaw Close Chafford Hundred Grays Essex RM16 6RN
Received 28 Feb 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Thurrock Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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